1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 5 



extantium Joseph! De Cristofori et Georgii Jan, etc. Sectio III, 

 fasc. i, Coleoptera." 



Quite recently, after the death of Gaetano Osculati, the Mu- 

 seum has inherited a small collection of Coleoptera which this 

 traveler had made in Italy and in some countries of the Orient. 

 It contains, among others, a part of the Coleoptera enumerated 

 by him in the brochure " Note di un viaggio nella Persia e nella 

 Indie Orientali negli anni 1841, 1842 da G. Osculati. Coleopte- 

 rorum enumeratio quae ad Persiam et Indias orientales itinere a 

 Gajetano Osculati collecta novarum specierum descriptionibus 

 adjectis. Modoetia [= Monza] 1844." 



XII. MUNICH. 



In the building on Neuhauser-strasse, Munich, where are asso- 

 ciated the Konigliche Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften 

 und Generalkonservatorium and the Zoological Institute of the 

 Konigliche Bayrische Ludwig-Maximilians Universitiit, is a col- 

 lection of insects. Herr Hindlmayr, curator, informed the writer, 

 on the occasion of his visit there, that the only important speci- 

 mens are the types of the Coleoptera collected in Bra/il by Spix 

 and Martins and described by Perty, and Dr. Kriechbaumer's 

 types of Ichneumonidse. 



XIII. HALLE. 



The Zoological Institute of the Vereinigte Friedrichs-Univer- 

 sitiit Halle-Wittenberg contains entomological collections of much 

 importance. The following notes are drawn up partly from the 

 manuscript catalogues and partly from memoranda kindly fur- 

 nished by Prof. Ernst Taschenberg, Professor of Entomology, 

 to \vhom the writer is indebted for many courtesies during several 

 days passed in study there. 



COLEOPTERA. 



More than 2800 specimens acquired from Prof. Schaum and 

 forming part of Germar's collection: many types of < ierm.ir and 

 Schonherr, especially among the Curculionidae. 



.Numerous types of Lamellicornia of Burmeister, of the genn> 

 Calopieron of E. Taschenberg, and Coleoptera from Columbia 

 and Ecuador from the last named. 



Schulrath Dr. Suffrian's collection of 35,565 specimens from 

 all parts of the world, which, under the terms of the testament 



